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Rev. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BREWER 

HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS 

GEORGE JULES DENIS 
Major WILLIAM ANTHONY ELDERKIN, U. S. (\ 

CHARLES PUTNAM FENNER 

FRANK PUTNAM FLINT 

MOTLEY HEWES FLINT 

EDWARD THOMAS HARDEN 

JOHN RANDOLPH HAYNES, M. D. 

HARRY WOODVILLE LATHAM 

BRADNER WELLS LEE 
Rev. ALEXANDER MOSS MERWIN 

HENRY fTTHERTON NICHOLS 

WILLARD ATHERTON NICHOLS 

JOSIAH fILONZO OSGOOD 
Hon. ERSKINE MAYO ROSS 
Hon. CAMERON ERSKINE THOM 

ANDREW ROANE THORPE 

SPENCER ROANE THORPE 



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Decennial Register 



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SOGIETY OF COLONIAL GUARS 

IN <UHE 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA 

AND 

QROCEEDINGS 

A<U VHE 

Eleventh General Goart 

December 21, 1905. 



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(Sentlemen of the Council anfc 

StanMna Committees. 

1906. 



GOVERNOR, 
HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS, 

Los Angeles- 

DEPUTY GOVERNOR, 

Hon. Erskine Mayo Ross. 

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, 

Hon. Cameron Erskine Thom. 

SECRETARY AND TREASURER, 

Harrison Babcock Alexander, 

Room 419 Henne Block, Los Angeles. 

REGISTRAR, 

Edward Thomas Harden, 

2331 Thompson St.. Los Angeles. 
CHANCELLOR, 

Bradner Wells Lee. 

HISTORIAN, 

Frank Clarke Prescott. 

SURGEON, 

John Randolph Haynes, M. D. 

CHAPLAIN, 

Rev. William Augustus Brewer. 






GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL, 
Term Expiring 1906. 

Albert Henry Payson, 

WlLLARD ATHERTON NlCHOLS, 

Charles Strong Walton. 

Term Expiring 1907. 

Hon. George Eli Hall, 

Arthur Burnett Benton, 

Willis Milnor Dixon. 

Term Expiring 1908. 

Isaac Hilliard Polk, 

Henry Kirk White, 

Orville Dwight Baldwin. 

committee on membership, 
Bradner Wells Lee, Chairman, 

Charles Strong Walton, Secretary, 
Willard Atherton Nichols, 

Edward Thomas Harden, 

Motley Hewes Flint. 

committee on historical documents, 
Hon. Frank Clarke Pkescott, Chairman Ex- Officio, 
Kirke Hart Field, 

William Hammond Wright, 

Walter Augustus Hawley. 

committee on entertainment, 
Hon. Cameron Erskine Thom, 
Charles Strong Walton, 

Arthur Burnett Benton, 

John Randolph Haynes, M. D., 

David Rittenhouse Porter Corwin. 

delegates to the general society 
Term Expiring December 21, 1908. 

Gen. John Green Ballance, U. S. A., 

Major John Stewart Kulp, U. S. A., 
Henry Atherton Nichols, 

George Timothy Klink, 

Charles Gardner Lathrop. 

ALTERNATE DELEGATES 

Philip King Brown, M. D., 

Frederick Schander Moody, 
Frank Blair Turpin, 

Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst, M. D., 

Lieut. Edwin Taylor Pollock, U. S. N. 

deputy governor general. 
Hon. Frank Putnam Flint. 



Hall of members. 



ALEXANDER, HARRISON BABCOCK Lawyer, Los Angeles 

BALDWIN, ORVILLE DWIGHT Real Estate, San Francisco 

BALLANCE, GENERAL JOHN GREEN. U. S. A Washington, D. C. 

BENTON, ARTHUR BURNETT Architect, Los Angeles 

BREWER, REV. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS Clergyman, San Mateo 

BROWN, FRANK LAMPSON Merchant, San Francisco 

BROWN, PHILIP KING Physician, San Francisco 

CHENERY, LEONARD EDWIN Accountant, San Francisco 

COLLINS. HOLDRIDGE OZRO Lawyer, Los Angeles 

CORWIN, DAVID RITTENHOUSE PORTER Los Angeles 

COWLES, WILLIAM NORTHROPE Merchant, Philadelphia, Pa. 

DENIS, GEORGE JULES Lawyer, Los Angeles 

DIMOND.EDWlN RODOLPH Merchant, San Francisco 

DIXON, WILLIS MILNOR Banker, Los Angeles 

FIELD, KIRKE HART Lawyer, Rediands 

FLINT, FRANK PUTNAM U- S. Senator, Los Angeles 

FLINT, MOTLEY HEWES Postmaster, Los Angeles 

HALL, CHARLES LANDER Trader, St. Michaels, Alaska 

HALL. GEORGE ELI Turkish Consul General, etc., San Francisco 

HALL, MAURICE ARTHUR Sec. Turkish Consulate General, San Francisco 

HALL, VICTOR JOSEPH Chemist, San Francisco 

HARDEN, EDWARD THOMAS Builder, Los Angeles 

HAWLEY, WALTER AUGUSTUS Merchant, Santa Barbara 

HAYNES, JOHN RANDOLPH Physician, Los Angeles 

KLINK. GEORGE TIMOTHY Broker, San Francisco 

KULP, JOHN STEWART Major and Surgeon, U. S. A., Washington, D. C. 

LATHROP, CHARLES GARDNER Stanford University 

LEE, BRADNER WELLS Lawyer, Los Angeles 

MOODY, FREDERICK SCHANDER Merchant, Burlingame 

NICHOLS, HENRY ATHERTON Banker, Cambridge, Mass 

NICHOLS. WILLARD ATHERTON Rancher, Rediands 

PARKHURST, DANIEL BURLEIGH Physician, Amherst, Mass 

PAYSON, ALBERT HENRY Civil Engineer, San Mateo 

POLK, ISAAC HILLIARD Miner, Los Angeles 

POLLOCK. EDWIN TAYLOR Lieut. U. S. Navy, Washington, D. C. 

PRESCOTT, FRANK CLARKE Register of the Land Office, Los Angeles 

ROSS. ERSKINE MAYO U. S. Circuit Judge, Los Angeles 

STANTON, JOSIAH RUMBALL Commander U. S. Navy, San Francisco 

THOM, CAMERON ERSKINE Los Angeles 

TURPIN. FRANK BLAIR Mill Valley 

WALTON, CHARLES STRONG Corporations' Auditor, Los Angeles 

WHITE HENRY KIRKE Railway Mail Clerk, Los Angeles 

WRIGHT, WILLIAM HAMMOND Astronomer, Mt. Hamilton 




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STATE OF CALIFORNIA 



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organized on February 3, 1898, 
under the provisions of Jlrticle XV 
of the State Society By-Laws. 
"Members of the California State 
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fifty miles of San Francisco shall be 
eligible for membership in this 
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GENTLEMEN: 

SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF OLE REGISTER FOR 1903 WE 
HAVE ELECTED ELEVEN GENTLEMEN TO MEMBERSHIP; FOUR 
HAVE DIED AND THREE HAVE BEEN DROPPED FOR NON-PAYMENT 
OF DUES, OUR PRESENT NUMBER BEING FORTY-THREE. 

THIS REGISTER EXHIBITS THE OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 
ELECTED AT THE ELEVENTH GENERAL COURT, CONVENED ON 
DECEMBER 21, 1905, AND OF OUR MEMBERS, WITH THEIR AVOCA- 
TIONS AND ADDRESSES. 

THE REPORT OF THE TREASURER SHOWS A COMFORTABLE 
WORKING BALANCE ON HAND, OUR PRINCIPAL EXPENSES HAVING 
BEEN FOR USE OF A SOCIETY ROOM, WHICH WE SUB-RENT FOR A 
SMALL AMOUNT, FROM THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY SONS OF THE 
REVOLUTION; THE PAYMENT OF OUR ANNUAL ASSESSMENT TO 
THE GENERAL SOCIETY AND FOR PRINTING AND POSTAGE. 

THE SOCIETY' HAS NOT BEEN INCORPORATED BUT TT IS EX- 
PECTED THAT THIS MOST DESIRABLE OBJECT WILL BE ATTAINED 
DURING THE COMING YEAR, 

ON FEBRUARY 18, 1905, THIS SOCIETY UNITED WITH THE SOCIE- 
TY SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN A BANQUET TENDERED TO HON. 
FRANK PUTNAM FLINT, THE RECENTLY ELECTED UNITED STATES 
SENATOR FROM CALIFORNIA, AND MR, FLINT HAS BEEN ELECTED 
DEPUTY GOVERNOR GENERAL, THAT WE MAY BE REPRESENTED IN 
THE COUNCIL OF THE GENERAL SOCTETY, WHICH HAS ITS MEETINGS 
DURING THE WINTER IN NEW YORK CITY. 

VERY SOON AFTER THE LAST TRIENNIAL MEETING OF THE 
GENERAL SOCIETY IN NEW YORK, FREDERIC J. DE PEYSTER, THE 
GOVERNOR GENERAL WHO HAD FILLED THAT OFFICE SINCE THE 
FOUNDATION OF THE ORDER, DIED VERY SUDDENLY, AND AT A 
MEETING OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL ON MAY 31, 1905, MR. ARTHUR 
JOHN CLARK SOWDEN OF BOSTON WAS ELECTED FOR THE UN- 
EXPIRED TERM. 

OUR SOCIETY ALBUM OF PORTRAITS AND THE BIOGRAPHICAL 
RECORD ARE COMPLETE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF EIGHT MEMBERS 
WHO HAVE NOT COMPLIED WITH THE RULE OF THE COUNCIL. AS 
THIS WAS ONE OF THE OBLIGATIONS THEY ASSUMED WHEN THEY 
APPLIED FOR MEMBERSHIP, IT IS HOPED THEY WILL NO LONGER 
REFRAIN FROM THEIR DUTY IN THIS BEHALF. 



MANY OF OUR MEMBERS HAVE BEEN ELECTED OR APPOINTED 
TO HIGH POSITIONS IN THE CIVIL, MILITARY AND NAVAL DEPART- 
MENTS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, GIVING US A REPRESENTATION IN 
WHICH WE MAY JUSTLY TAKE PRIDE. THE LIST EMBRACES: 

HON. ERSKINE M. ROSS, UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE. 

HON. FRANK PUTNAM FLINT, UNITED STATES SENATOR. 

MOTLEY HEWES FLINT, POSTMASTER AT LOS ANGELES. 

FRANK CLARKE PRESCOTT, REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE, 
LOS ANGELES. 

GENERAL JOHN GREEN BALLANCE AND MAJOR JOHN STEW- 
ART KULP OF THE ARMY, AND 

COMMANDER JOSIAH RUMBALL STANTON AND LIEUTENANT 
EDWIN TAYLOR POLLOCK OF THE NAVY. 

WE HAVE BEEN GREATLY AFFLICTED IN THE LOSS OF FOUR 
OF OUR MEMBERS DURING THE LAST YEAR. THEY ALL OCCUPIED 
OFFICIAL POSITION IN THIS SOCIETY AND AN APPRECIATION OP 
THEIR MERITS HAS BEEN PLACED UPON OUR RECORDS IN THE 
MEMORIALS ADOPTED BY THE ELEVENTH GENERAL COURT, AND 
IN THE RESOLUTION THAT THEIR NAMES, AS WELL AS OF ALL 
DECEASED MEMBERS, SHALL BE HEREAFTER PRINTED IN THE 
PUBLICATIONS OF THIS SOCIETY. 




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LOS ANGELES, JANUARY 1, 1906. GOVERNOR. 




IRew HIeran&zr /TOose flGerwin 



Afexander to Merwin 



Born September 3, 1839, in Norwalk, Connecticut 
Died February 2, 1905, in Pasadena, California 



Descended in the seventh generation from Governor Joseph 
Treat of Connecticut, and in the fourth generation from Joseph 
Piatt Cooke, Colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment of Connecticut 
troops in the War of the Revolution, Alexander Moss Merwin, from 
his early youth until he passed to the eternal hereafter, was identified 
with the best thought for the conservation of an honest and en- 
lightened government in the civil and religious affairs of a people 
whose independence his ancestors had helped to achieve, and his 
name ranks high in the roll of the leading Captains of the Church 
Militant. 

Motherless at three years of age, until his tenth year his home 
was with relatives in New Haven and New York. Entering Williams 
College, he was graduated in 1863 with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts, and the same year he matriculated in Princeton Theological 
Seminary, from which in 1866 he received the degree of Bachelor 
of Divinity. In subsequent years the degree of Master of Arts was 
conferred upon him by Williams and Yale Colleges. 

In his early years he was connected with the American Sunday 
School Union and the Bible Society, and during the War of the 
Rebellion he was Acting Chaplain at the hospitals of Alexandria 
and Fortress Monroe and agent in the Shenandoah Valley, of the 
Sanitary and Christian Commissions. 

Under the auspices of the Presbyterian Board, he went to Chile 
as a missionary, where, under his supervision, was organized the first 
Protestant Chilean Church in that republic, at Santiago, and he was 
the first pastor of Chilean Protestants at Valparaiso. He remained 
in Chile nineteen years, carrying on the work of pastor, editor and 
superintendent of schools until 1885, when he returned to the United 
States. 

In 1886 he came to Southern California, from which period 
until his death he was engaged in missionary labors for the Mexicans, 
and through his efforts, Presbyterian congregations were organized, 



and church edifices erected at Los Angeles, San Gabriel, Alhambra, 
South Pasadena, Lamanda Park and Azusa, and a Girl's Home and 
School was established and placed upon an enduring basis in Los 
Angeles. 

Elected a member of the California Society Sons of the Revolu- 
tion in May, 1894, his name was borne upon its rolls to the time of 
his death as one of the most zealous advocates of its institution. 
A charter member of this Society he was chosen its Chaplain and 
retained in that office at every annual election. In the affectionate 
intercourse of our members he became endeared to us all, and we 
mourn with his afflicted family, the loss of this gentle Christian, 
who will not be forgotten. 




Ifoerbert Cornelius Bnorcwg 



Herbert (ornefius Andrews 

Born March 19, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois 
Died May 31, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois 



Surrendering his life at the early age of twenty-two years, 
Herbert Cornelius Andrews lived long enough to impress his per- 
sonality upon all with whom he came in contact. Graduating from 
the High School at Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, he entered the 
Chicago University, and later he was a student in Colorado College 
at Colorado Springs, where he remained a year, but being of a 
fragile constitution, he was unable to endure the hard work of a 
student, and he passed the following two years in Flagstaff, Arizona, 
and at other places in the West, striving for the return of health, 
which never came to him. 

The only son of a prosperous manufacturer in Chicago, it was 
the hope of his father that he would take up that work as it should 
fall to him, but his student life and delicate health had unfitted 
him for mercantile pursuits and he found his vocation in the more 
congenial work of an historian and biographer. 

Descended from Governors William Leete and Thomas Welles 
of Connecticut and others distinguished in the first settlement of 
New England, he became engrossed in the study of the early 
Colonial era, to which the remainder of his life was devoted. He 
lived to complete several works of genealogy and biography which 
were recognized as being valuable contributions to the history of 
this country in his election to membership in the New England 
Historic Genealogical Society. 

Seeking a milder climate, in 1903 he came to Los Angeles. In 
March, 1904, he was elected a member of this Society, and at the 
annual meeting, December 21, 1904, he was elected to the Committee 
on Historical Documents. His gentleness and courtesy won for 
him the esteem of his associates, and his achievements in his literary 
pursuits exacted respect for his ability. 

As a testimonial to his worth and our sympathy with his father 
and mother for the loss of their only son, this memorial is placed 
upon our records by unanimous resolution adopted at the Eleventh 
General Court of this Society held in the city of Los Angeles, State 
of California, on the twenty-first day of December, One Thousand 
Nine Hundred and Five. 




JFreberlcfe ■foastfngs 1Rfn&ge 



Frederick Hastings Rindge 

Born December 21, 1857, in Cambridge, Massachusetts 
Died August 29, 1905, in Yreka, California 



A trustee of great wealth, and inheriting the blood of ancestors 
distinguished in both the Colonial era and that great Revolution 
against the despotism of England, Frederick Hastings Rindge has 
departed from us, leaving as his richest legacy a bright record on 
the pages of his time among those whose lives have been devoted 
to the maintenance of good government, the integrity of a nation 
founded upon eternal principles of liberty and justice and the 
establishment and perpetuity of secular and religious institutions 
devoted to the training of those to whom shall fall the guardianship 
of the welfare of this land. 

Educated at Harvard University, from which he received the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts, his studies did not cease with the close 
of his college career, and his intellectual activities ended only with 
his life. He achieved a recognized position in the scientific walks 
of Ethnology and Archaeology, as well as in the lighter and more 
popular fields of literature, and he gave us a most pleasing, graphic 
and instructive description of the life as we live it on the Pacific 
Coast, in his "Happy Days in Southern California," With the 
strongest attachment for the place of his nativity, he acquired for 
his new home in this land, a love and enthusiasm, which, in a great 
measure, became factors in the direction of his later years. 

The complete story of his private benefactions and sympathetic 
charities to the suffering and needy will never be known this side 
the gates of Paradise, but his munificent gifts to Cambridge, and his 
establishment and endowment of educational, charitable and reli- 
gious institutions will remain for all time a part of the history of the 
cities of his nativity and adoption. With reverential gratitude for 
the sacrifices made by his ancestors in the winning of this land, 
and pride in their valor which helped to achieve its independence 
and found a government which he believed the happiest upon eartb, 
he sought admission to the Societies of Colonial Wars and Sons of 
the Revolution, that his children and his children's children might 
read therein the record of those whose blood they inherited. 



A gentleman of the Council of this Society, his interest was 
unfailing in all its proceedings, and he gave his adherence and firm 
support to all the principles of our Order. 

The loss of such a citizen cannot but be felt and mourned 
throughout the entire scenes of his activities, and as a testimonial 
of our affection and appreciation of his gentle life, we spread this 
memorial upon our records, and direct that a copy be transmitted 
to his family. 




Spencer IRoane Uborpe 



Spencer Roane Thorpe 



Born January 20, 1842, in Louisville, Kentucky 
Died September 2, 1905, in Moor Park, California 



A descendant of Patrick Henry, the whole life of Spencer Roane 
Thorpe was a marked exemplification of the principles which char- 
acterized his great ancestor. In early youth he entered St. Joseph's 
College at Bardstown, Kentucky, where he remained until the 
spring of 1861. A Southerner by birth and ancestry, all of his affec- 
tions and sympathies went out to the people of his home, and in 
April, 1861. when but nineteen years old, he left his College and 
joined the Confederate Army, enlisting in the Sixteenth Mississippi 
Regiment of Infantry, from which he was transferred to the First 
Kentucky Infantry. He participated in the battle of Drainsville, 
Virginia, on December 20, 1861, when he was wounded, and he 
served with his Regiment until June, 1862, when it was disbanded 
at Richmond, Virginia. 

Returning to Kentucky, he joined Morgan's forces with which 
he fought at Cynthiana on July 16, 1862, and where he again 
received a serious wound. He served under Morgan in the raid 
through Indiana, holding at that time the rank of First Lieutenant, 
and being in command of a battalion of four companies serving as 
the advance guard. 

At Corydon, on July 9, 1863, he w T as so seriously wounded 
that he was left as dead upon the field. Taken prisoner, 
his recovery was slow, and when able to be moved, he was sent to 
the military prison at Johnson's Island, in November, where he was 
retained until his exchange in October 1864, when he rejoined his 
Regiment, then commanded by Gen. Basil W. Duke. His final service 
in the Confederate Army was with the rank of captain when his 
command accompanied the Confederate Government from Charlotte, 
North Carolina, to Washington, Georgia, where, being captured, 
he was paroled. 

Upon the establishment of peace he settled in Louisiana, and 
being admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court, he achieved a 
competence in the practice of his profession. 



He came to California in 1883, settling in San Francisco, but 
in 1886 he made a new home for his family in Los Angeles. In 
May, 1893, he was admitted to membership in the California 
Society of Sons of the Revolution and in 1897 he became its Vice- 
President, holding that office by successive elections to the time of 
his death. 

A charter member of this Society, he has been Deputy Governor 
General from the date of its organization, and Lieutenant Governor 
since 1896. 

His amiable disposition and hearty support of the principles 
of this Society, had endeared him to all its members, and in his 
death we mourn the loss, not only of a zealous associate, but a 
sympathetic friend, a gentleman and a strenuous advocate in both 
his private and public life, for all that conduces to honesty and 
probity in the management of State and municipal affairs. To the 
afflicted widow and children we extend our most profound sympathy. 



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